Results from Leg 162 are providing new insights into the role played by the high northern-latitude seas in the global climate system on time scales ranging from centuries to millions of years. The exceptionally high accumulation rates that characterize the sedimentary sequences recovered south of Iceland have permitted the study of millennial-scale variations in climate proxies as well as in the Earth's magnetic field at a level of detail not previously possible. In particular, by extending these high-resolution records back millions of years, Leg 162 investigators have been able to characterize the amplitude and frequency of millennial-scale climate variability over a time period when the average climate state has evolved toward generally colder conditions and the frequency of orbital-scale variations has changed dramatically. In addition, by examining the evolution of vertical and horizontal gradients in water mass properties on both orbital and millennial time scales, these investigations have allowed us to examine the long-term history of North Atlantic surface and deep-water circulation. Such hydrographic changes exert a fundamental control on Northern Hemisphere, and perhaps global, climate. Lastly, sediments recovered from Leg 162 sites in the Norwegian-Greenland Sea are providing new insights into the Neogene evolution of Northern Hemisphere ice sheets. Below are highlights from the Leg 162 results that have been published outside of this Scientific Results volume. The list of these studies was prepared in April 1999 and will be updated on the Ocean Drilling Program Web site (http://www-odp.tamu.edu) as new papers are published.